Anyone who doesn't ever put themselves at some risk doesn't live at all. You are right, having a pet is risky. So is leaving a rubber room. Animals are capable of loving, that's my argument, not "life isn't dangerous."
I don't get it. It makes no sense to put oneself at risk of being mauled or deformed, for when the animal instincts decide to kick in.
I can envision another situation where somebody is snuggling up in bed, in the middle of the night, with the soft nice smelling furry cat, and the individual quickly makes a sudden movement while sleeping, and the cat freaks out and digs its claw into yer eyeball, and then you have to go to the doctor to get fitted for yer new glass eye.
I feel so bad for my cousin...it was such a shitty unfortunate thing that happened to her, and now her face is all fucked up, and she uncontrollably drools, just because she thought that her puppy was some kind of freak thing that is predisposed to "loving unconditionally". I have not seen what kind of condition she is in, but apparently, it's not good, and she also has a speech impediment, due to the accident. She was a very pretty woman too, and I heard that she said she would give up her millions of dollars in exchange for her old face back.
These pets are barely "domesticated". They are still more wild than domesticated, but people are so stupid and prefer to think that "domesticated" animals are so cute and cuddly, and would never hurt other people, but it happens all the time, and then the owners say things like, "I don't understand....my innocent Muffins never hurt anybody...Muffins only wants to love."
*sigh*
Way back when I had a dog, it never listened to me. She only listened to my father, who I guess was her "master". I'd tell the dog to get off the god damn couch, but it would just ignore me, and then I would go to pick her up to put her on the floor, and she wouldn't let me touch her and start growling like crazy, and snap at my hands. I'm sorry, but these dogs and cats, and things are NOT "domesticated". These are crazy vicious beasts and a danger to you, yer family, friends, and strangers. It's true that my dog was otherwise, a very well "trained" animal, but every time it growled and snapped at me like that, I felt like putting a snow shovel to the back of her head.